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HE Rockaways, which constitute the 5th Ward of the Borough of 
Queens, City of New York, are bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on 
the South and Jamaica Bay and the Village of Inwood on the 
North and West. The Rockaways are made up of the following 
places: Far Rockaway, Edgemere, Arverne, Rockaway Beach, 
Rockaway Park and Rockaway Point. 

Far Rockaway is fast becoming an all-year-round residential 
its winter population being about 8,000 and in the summer time about 
Far Rockaway is known for its high class population, as it has the 
distinction of numbering among its residents many of New York's million- 
aires, who in former years leased cottages for the summer season but who are 
now buying and building beautiful residences and living in the beautiful " City- 
by-the-Sea" all the year 'round. 

Far Rockaway via the Long Island P.ailroad is 22 miles from 34th Street, 
Manhattan, and 16 miles from Brooklyn, and in the summer time there are 35 
trains a day to and from New York and Brooklyn and in the winter about 30 
trains. The High School is in Far Rockaway and there are three beautiful 
brick public schools at Arverne and Rockaway Beach , also the % 1 50,000 parochial 
school of St. Mary Star-of-the-Sea ; the National Bank and the Bank of Long 
Island, the latter having two branches at Rockaway Beach. It has St. Mary 
Star-of-the-Sea Church, (Catholic); St. John's Episcopal Church; First 
Presbyterian Church ; and German Lutheran Church. 

There are two Carnegie Libraries, one a handsome brick structure located 
opposite the plaza of the railroad station to meet the view of visitors just as 
they get ofif the trains. The plaza itself is pleasing to the eye in the summer 
time, and this station won the prize for being the best kept station on the 
Long Island Railroad for five consecutive years. 

The beach is the finest on the Atlantic coast and thousands may be seen 
each day enjoying " Old Neptune ". Many of the business men of Manhattan 
at the end of a hot day's work immediately rush for the beach and enjoy the 
invigorating bath before dinner each evening. 

Jamaica Bay with its broad expanse of navigable waters provides great 
pleasure for yachtsmen and fishermen for nearly ten months in the year, and 
its shores are lined with palatial residences and yacht club houses, among 
which are the Jamaica Bay Yacht Club with a home second to none in the 
vicinity of New York. Also the Bayswater Yacht Club, situated in the aristo- 
cratic Bayswater section of Far Rockaway. 

Ocean Crest and Wave Crest, as the names imply, present unobstructed 
and grand views of the broad Atlantic, as they rise in a majestic manner on 
the edge of the ocean. 

The brick avenues and macadamized streets afYord many pleasant hours 
to automobilists and horsemen, as almost all the streets and avenues are lined 
with large and beautiful trees and concrete sidewalks. 

The whole Fifth Ward is under the protection of the paid New York 
Police Department and Fire Department, having five engine companies and 
three truck companies. 

The Queens County Water Company supplies the Rockaways with the best 
water obtainable, and The Queens Borough Gas and Electric Company lights 
the ward. 

At the present there are many new buildings in the course of erection, 
among which are the magnificent five story brick office building at the L. I. 
R. R. station, also a mammoth seven story re-enforced concrete l)uilding. 

Electric trains for the accommodation of commuters make the run to 
Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, in less than .30 minutes and to 34th Street, 
Manhattan, in 40 minutes, and the railroad company promises this time will be 
considerably lessened inside of a year 

There are five lines of steamboats which run from Manhattan, Brooklyn, 
Jersey City and Newark during the summer months to Seaside and Rockaway 
Park. 

It is an old saying in the Rockaways: "Once a person lives on this 
peninsula for one year, and then moves away — he is bound to come back .'' 



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